forever yours mimpi.......completed a long pending job after 17 years!

Actually, your mention of "17 years" got my attention.

I had a 'best friend' from elementary school until after she was married. We lived together while her husband was away in the army. She had a 3-year-old daughter at the time, too. It was wonderful!

BUT, she got divorced from her husband and began seeing this new man who was of questionable character. The day after she moved out, with his help, I noticed a ring of mine was missing from my jewelry box. It was a diamond ring worth quite a lot of money. I KNEW it was in my jewelry box because that's where I kept it whenever I wasn't wearing it.

I asked her about it because her boyfriend was a convicted thief and she got really ANGRY! I wasn't accusing anyone, it just seemed very ironic that my ring was missing the day after he was in my home! I honestly didn't think SHE would take anything of mine.

Anyway, we didn't speak or see one another for 17 years. Then, I saw her father's obituary in the newspaper. I decided to go to the funeral home for the viewing. When she saw me, she stood up, ran over to me and hugged me for like 5 minutes without letting go! It felt very good to see her again!

We exchanged phone numbers and addresses and she promised me that it would NOT be another 17 years before we got together again. I called her a week after the funeral and we spoke for a few minutes, then she said she had to go because she was really busy, but would call me back in a day or two. She never called.

I called her after 2 months had passed, mainly because I was curious as to what happened. Her phone number had been disconnected. I have no idea why! Maybe it was because her husband (who was her questionable boyfriend 17 years earlier) remembered that ring and didn't want her having anything to do with me. He was definitely a controlling person and she was somewhat timid.

Well, that was OVER 17 years ago now and she's just disappeared off the face of the Earth. I would LOVE to know how she's doing but, apparently, she doesn't feel the same. After doing some research online, I found that she had divorced her husband, but still hasn't tried to contact me, although I have moved several times since then and changed my phone number many times.

I would love to "finish" that job... by getting back in touch with her, but I don't see that happening. Sad, isn't it?

mimpi,you have sent me down the memory lane.my best friend now lives in america and she does come down with her family,once every5 years.we make it a point to have night-out together,with the salted cashewnuts and pepsi and we bring out our autograph books and all those cards and letters,we have exchanged,during the earlier years(sorry cards,best friend card,etc)it becomes so emotional to part,the next day.our husbands say,"they feel jealous,seeing our love"

I have a friend for 20 years and we went through our youth together having done a lot,, watching movie, travelling, parties in other words we had a great time together at the same time being there for each other all the time.

A few years back we had lost touch with each other, although we stayed in the same locality. I presumed that he had preferred to dissacoicate himself from me for some events relating to my past. Maybe it was just that i was in a shell. A couple of months back, on one evening as i was strolling down the road after a cup of tea, there was this guy standing in front of me grinning away. We were overjoyed to see each other. I asked him straight on his face as to why he kept away. His preoccupation was primarly with some family problems and a new business that he had got into over the years. He had tried to get in touch with me,but the message was not passed on.That is what kept him busy. And i was wrong about him and how ashamed i felt after that. Why did i stay away from him? One hug from his side and a thump at the back of my neck. Forget it all he said.

Leter he took me across to the club nearby and we played a couple of games of snooker, something that we both enjoyed and spent a lot of time over. I had not touched a snooker cue in the last 5 years. And after that we yapped and chatted and shared all those good old days over 3 plates of kebabs. And guess what i ate most of it.

It sure felt good. Thanks for bringing up this post Mimpi, thinking back on this made me feel really good and i know it must have felt really special to you.

It is great for you Mimpi that you met and spent some good time with your best friend.
I have one very important friend who was my neighbour in years 1965,66, and 1967.The day she shifted residence I cried like God knows what![in eighth standard]. We were still together in school, in the same class. After 11th we had to part ways and once again after a gap of one year [it was PUC those days instead of +2] , we were together in B.A. but had taken different Majors. When I was in my post graduation she got married in 77 and after that I think we lost touch for some time.It was in 1989, that I lived in the same flat as her uncle [I was a new tenant in that compound];I came to know that she was in a place some 160 kms from ours and from thereon we have been in very regular touch [though infrequent].I attended two of her daughters' marriages in some God forsaken village and now I am in touch through the net with all her children. Recently one of her daughters invited me to be her friend on Orkut.
The day when I accidentally bumped into her uncle was a memorable day.However,we were broadly in touch [through letters]though at that precise momnet with so much of shifting etc we did not know the whereabouts of the other.Moreover, after this we could meet easily,;I have gone to her place and stayed with her for a day or two.She too came and spent some time with me. Now we are far away. I feel like going and spending three or four days at least with her, but the train journey and unknown place [recently she has shifted to a totally different state]bog me down. All her daughters are married and I thank God for giving me such a wonderful friend.
All her relatives know me and were most surprised that the little one with a frock and songs was seen once again in their grand niece's marriage, when I went to their village.
They conduct their weddings only in their villages though she herself lives in a city.

I'm glad you had a great time with your friend.
So sorry your page was missing. It is good to
relive days passed on sometimes. I saw one of my
bestest friends a few weeks back. It was a horrible
time I was going through. As always though she was
there for me. It is so great to have good friends
we can rely on. Good friends always make a difference
and make things much better.

Hi Mou
Sound good that u enjoyed the time
Well, i am not sure if i have the same book or Not,
But trust me, i am not that good in sense to keep things, u know i believe persons are more important than things.

Anyway no such wonderful story to share with u as u just Did

Just Enjoy the REUNION


Bye

It is good to hear that you could see your best pal after 17 years. I can imagine, you both would have felt on the seventh sky, while sharing old memories and you both would have become nostalgic about your school days. The old scrape book would have come handy for recalling about other friends and it would have revealed what would have been your thinking levels at that period of time.

Hi mimpi dear! Wow, that's a long wait for the scrapbook! lol..Congratulations for finally getting it done! As they say, "Better late than never!" I think the most recent happy moment for me is finally joining my high school friends in our yahoo group and in facebook. I have a 3 year old invitation from them which they kept on sending again and again for almost three years and finally I joined them. It was great having to chat with them again after a long time and updating each other on the going ons in our life.
take care and may all our friendship last forever!
lovelots..faith

It sounds like some wonderful reminiscing there mimpi! I have a friend back in Australia that I have known for some 20+ years now and although we don't keep in regular touch; whenever we do meet up or talk, it's as if we only saw each other the day before! Given the type of lifestyle I lead, it's refreshing to have a friend like this. There's no pressure on either of us at all and we both know that either one of us is there always. I also have another friend back home that I haven't know for anywhere near as long, but we share a similar relationship as above also. Good friends are definitely hard to find, so hold on tight!

Hi mimpi, my freinds were always different ever since kindergarten, elementary, junior high, high school, and university because I've been moving out. I stay in touch with my college friends but nearly lost touch with my high school friends, just few of them I still had contacted. One of them is a hot lawyer now, but she didn't return my call.. I'm sad.